Klarinet Archive - Posting 000289.txt from 2004/12

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Question on tone...
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:37:33 -0500

On 16 Dec, Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net> wrote:

> Tony Pay wrote:
>
> > I have to say that the upshot of this encounter (which was delightful
> > to me in lots of ways that aren't relevant to this topic) is that I
> > now want to own a 'proper' pair of Wurlitzers, because the sort of
> > sound that you're talking about is much easier to achieve on the
> > German system. It's where the instrument itself 'sits'.
>
> You might also find it interesting to check out the modified Boehm
> system instruments that some of the small German manufacturers are
> making---e.g. Schwenk und Siggelke and Johanna Kronthaler. My teacher
> in Denmark had some experience of these and had suggested that they were
> superior to e.g. the Reform-Boehm system, and a very good meld of the
> fingering ease of the Boehm system combined with the tonal qualilties of
> German instruments.

I might, indeed -- and perhaps I will. But I have been doing that sort of
thing all my life, even if not with these particular makers.

The thrust of my post was rather to suggest that in these last few days I'd
seen an alternative to a compromise or 'meld' solution -- where you try to
have an instrument that will do anything, more or less.

My experience in Israel was rather like having what I could recognise as a
perfectly engineered precision tool put into my hands. Even though I still
have to find out how I may best use it, it seems a step forward to organise
that it's *one* of my instruments.

Tony
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... I'll have what the guy on the floor is having...

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